It’s true. I rode my new Surly Cross-Check 63 miles less than two weeks after picking it up at the local bike shop (an insurance money replacement for my Cannondale mountain bike that was brazenly heisted right out of our open garage in August). My training regimen was brief, which means I rode as much as I could in the two weeks leading up to the ride, and squeezed in 100 miles. That ain’t bad considering that

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